Teenagers dancing at Dallas Empire Room on 6 August 1956 take a break to pose for Hickman. By the early and mid-1960s, larger marches and protests helped to finally open the door for major civil rights legislation. Eventually schools and colleges began to integrate, black Americans gained political rights, and American culture was challenged and changed. [RC Hickman; RC Hickman Photographic Archive, Briscoe Center for American History]
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